Long (boring) story short:
Last year I got a message from FB telling me my account had been accessed from Philadelphia. It was clearly a hack so I froze my account. I was on holiday. I waited till I got back before using the re-activation codes FB emailed me. When I got home, FB said they the codes had expired. I was then stuck in a confusing loop from which there was no escape. I gave up trying in frustration and set up a new account. But my old account still exists...frozen in time.
Or so I thought: the other day, FB listed my OLD account in the list of "people you may know". Just out of curiosity, I sent "friend request" to myself and I clicked on my old account and discovered that FB is still auto-linking content from my friends to it for activities we've done together e.g. photos of climbing trips (instead of auto-linking to my new account). So it's a mess, and I want to try to regain access to it. Any suggestions??
Cheers